Synopsis
The film travels at the pace of the seasons through the real and fictional story of a region in Portugal, the Alentejo, and the peoples who have lived there. It begins at a present with no memory and travels back in time to the immemorial time, before the invention of writing. Along the way, it crosses more or less distant pasts: the work and life of German archaeologists detained far away from home during WWII, through their archives and letters; the occupation of the land by the rural workers after the revolution in April 1974; stories kept in the collective memory. During this journey we meet women and men, old people and children, shepherds, hunters, beekeepers, archaeologist, teachers and storytellers, and also ruins, dolmens and a thousand-year old olive tree. All contribute, with their memories, believes and knowledge, to compose a poetic, political, multi-layered and polyphonic portrait of the region.
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Cast
- Simão Ramalho
- Cláudio da Silva
- Ana Potra
- Manuel Leitão
- António Sozinho
- Gerti DrasslSelf (voice)
- Michaela KasparSelf (voice)
- Raphael von BargenSelf (voice)
- Toni SlamaSelf (voice)
- António AbelSelf (voice)
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